Senior Engineering Manager

About us

Remita powers payments and collections for banks and Fintechs, as well as individuals, enterprises, and governments. We build high-availability, secure financial systems that handle large transaction volumes and strict regulatory requirements.

The role

We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Java-based platform teams. You’ll own delivery, reliability, and technical growth across mission-critical payment APIs and microservices. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, people management, and operational excellence.

What you’ll do

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.

• Drive architecture and design for microservices, APIs, and payment integrations.

• Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, and compliance with payment standards.

• Champion engineering best practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, observability.

• Own system reliability, capacity planning, and SLOs for both transactional services and ML inference workloads; optimize cost and latency trade-offs.

• Partner with Product, Data & AI Engineering, Risk, Security, and Compliance to prioritize initiatives, embed models into workflows, and ensure regulatory readiness.

• Establish KPIs for engineering and AI (lead time, MTTR, model drift, inference latency, false positive/negative rates); use metrics to drive continuous improvement.

• Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve performance and developer productivity.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years software engineering experience; 5+ years in engineering management or equivalent.

• Strong Java (Java 8+) expertise and proven experience building production microservices.

• Experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and databases (Oracle, Postgres, Redis, etc.).

• Cloud & container experience (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes/Docker).

• Hands-on with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK).

• Solid knowledge of secure development practices and payment industry/regulatory requirements.

• Familiarity with specification-driven AI development, including structured workflows, schema-based outputs, guardrails, and evaluation-driven AI system design.

• Familiarity with ML frameworks and tooling (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), model orchestration (Kubeflow, MLflow), and cloud AI services (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML); or demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt equivalent solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, manage complex stakeholder networks, and deliver under high operational pressure.

• Excellent communicator and stakeholder partner; experience in fintech/payments preferred.

Why join Remita

• You’ll contribute to shaping payments infrastructure used nationwide, and across Africa.

• Hybrid work and a collaborative, fast-paced fintech culture.

• Competitive pay, benefits, and professional development.

• Influence product direction, regulatory engagement, and pan-African financial services.

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